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7 Valuable Benefits You May Not Even Know You Have
Most of us know about Social Security, Medicare, our employer’s retirement plan and IRAs, but if you’re like many Americans, you could be eligible for other benefits worth tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars that you might not [Read more...]
Disability Coverage: More Important Than You (or Your Employees) Think
So what is DIAM? It stands for Disability Insurance Awareness Month, sponsored by the Life and Health Insurance Foundation for Education (LIFE). Many employees are unaware of the disability coverage that may be available to them as an employer-sponsored benefit, [Read more...]
Employee Perspective on Heathcare – Employee Engagement
With the economy still unstable, many employees face the strain of job insecurities, rising benefit costs and resulting financial troubles. With so many competing pressures, it’s not surprising many workers are failing to place a high priority on managing their [Read more...]
The Hidden Cost of Employee Confusion About Healthcare
How well do your employees really understand their health plan? Do you know the readability score of the materials you provide them? How much jargon is included in your summary plan descriptions? How do you educate new grads entering the [Read more...]
Workplace Benefits That are Rapidly Disappearing
Traditional pension plans, paid family leave, and even the company picnic are all on the decline. Employers have significantly cut many of the benefits they offer to workers over the past five years. Some 77 percent of companies report that [Read more...]
5 ways employers can improve women’s financial education
In my last column I talked about the gender gap between men and women in their knowledge and confidence of key financial concepts and the risks this gap poses for employers in delayed retirement and health care costs…
Health Savings Accounts: Baby Steps
Health savings accounts are growing slowly, but they may get a boost now that everyone must buy health insurance…
Best Practices for Helping Employees Avoid a Retirement Crisis
Employees have sustained a lot of difficult change over the past few years. For the most part, many had never been through a recession like the one that hit in 2008 and, as a result, they weren’t prepared to weather it… Continue reading
Benefits opportunities: What to watch in 2011
In 2011, Americans face some changes to their income and benefits where a sense of urgency can be a good opportunity to better their finances…
Video: Nancy Anderson Talks Maximizing Your Company Benefits with Judith West
Your benefits package from your employer is worth a lot. But it’s possible you are not Getting your full Money’s Worth. Nancy Anderson, director of the Think Tank for Financial Finesse breaks down your health and retirement benefits to help [Read more...]
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